Before you rush off to the pharmacy to get meds filled with side effects, what are some natural grandma remedies do you know of...please share. I'll go first.
For Arthritis pain:
Take a box of golden raisins. (note: they must be the golden variety, sometimes called white raisins, not ordinary black raisins).
Place the raisins in a shallow container.
Cover the raisins with gin.
Let the raisins soak in the gin for a few weeks until the gin evaporates.
You then eat nine of these drunken raisins a day to help your arthritis.
My mom and I use this remedy all the time and it works.
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Hey guys,
I find it weird how I saw this thread, because just last night I had a terrible ear ache. I have sinuses but there not that bad. I sneeze and hack (cough) a little but I can deal with it. I went downstairs and knew exactly what to ask for. I asked my mom where is some sweet oil and cotton. I put a little bit of sweet oil on that cotton and stick it in my ear. I slept like a baby last night.
My mom always suggested vinegar on a cloth to place on my forehead when I had a headache becuase I never liked to take anything, but I hated the smell.
And you know round that time of the month when your breasts are sore, she suggested putting powder on them. It helped soothe away some of the pain.
When I was younger I would end up in the emergency room for all kind of things like busting my leg wide open from it going through a broken chair I tried to stand on when I was being chased by piglets to swallowing a lamp screw. Remedy for that to come to surface was some good old mashed potatoes.
I enjoyed reading all the remedies everyone posted. Really makes me eager to try some of them.
Umeboshi, or Japanese pickled plums, are a great cold remedy. When I feel a cold coming on, I brew a cup of decaf tea (usually white tea with citrus, just my preference) and mash up a couple of plums into the tea. Drink the tea and eat what is left of the plums. I start this the minute that I feel a cold coming on. I drink it two times a day until the symptoms start to subside (usually 2 days). The plums are very salty and slightly bitter. I'm actually growing to like the taste, and using them to season my tea when I am not ill.
Thank to all who have responded. Im really learning alot.
As for my acne since the thread, a poster (forget the username) said to grind aspirin and honey with cinnamon...knock on wood. I've been using it for a couple of days now and the planets on the side of my face has started to decrease in size.
I also have oily skin so ive been using the milk of magnesia. It makes my face tighter like I got botox or something. So thats another use for milk of mag....to form a tighter and firmer skin. Im loving it!!!
vicks was always in our medicine cabinets. one grandmother took by mouth 1/4 tsp each evening before bed to keep a cold and infection away. she lived to be 94..
we always smelled of vicks for a chest and back rub for the sniffles.
great link...
i remember having to swallow vick's as a kid - until i learned to read, and then i read the label to my mom (said not to be taken internally) - one of the first indications her little boy was destined to be a know-it-all
This is a store-bought remedy, but when I had terrible acne I, too, tried everything. Years later, I wound up at the Kiehl's counter at Sak's. The woman there suggested their rare earth and oatmeal cleanser (basically clay and oatmeal), their tea tree oil toner, and an oil free moisturizer. They worked like a charm. Since returning to nursing school, I can no longer afford their products. I just use Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap all over (hair, too) now. Works great.
a mixture of desitin and malox for diaper rash, poison ivy rash, rashes from bug bites etc, etc, or to put around gt stomas. learned this from the ped's doc. the malox neutralizes the acid and the desitin forms a barrier.
Several years ago I tried a strange remedy for warts. A friend suggested that I put some milk weed sap on it just before going to bed. I laughed but since the wart was making my thumb odd shaped, I decided to try it. I used it just one time & about a week later I was inspecting parts at work under a microscope. I caught sight of my wart & realized that it had shrunk. I used it 2 more times & the wart disappeared. I'd dealt with that wart for 3 years.
For ice packs I just love those small packs of frozen peas, or corn or other assorted veggies. The nicest thing is they work very well, the second thing is when they have thawed out, you heat them up, sprinkle some spices and parmesan on them, and instant meal.
a mixture of desitin and malox for diaper rash, poison ivy rash, rashes from bug bites etc, etc, or to put around gt stomas. learned this from the ped's doc. the malox neutralizes the acid and the desitin forms a barrier.
i used to work at a little country nursing home in a mountain town in the south. we used maalox around irritated gtubes and it worked like a charm!
i recently told one of our nurses to try it on a patient whose site looked horrible. she thought i had lost my darn mind.
yungins, lol
on the topic of my wart on my thumb...
i've been wearing the duct tape since the day this thread started. the wart doesnt look any different but it is a lot smoother. it is also very, very tender under the tape. i read on one of the links that super glue also works. i think i might try that while i work this weekend. last weekend soo many people were commenting to me "um...why do you have duct tape on your finger?" (like i was nuts, lol)
i've also noticed that now it has this tiny dark spot in it, like a splinter or something. i tried to pick it out today but it wouldnt come out.
so do i just keep wearing it until the wart is gone?
Homemade chicken soup for sure, with LOTS of garlic and
Glass of apple cidar vinegar and water; mixed half and half
Salt
Honey (or sugar) to taste; honey is better
Garlic
Hot Sauce (dash) or Cayenne Pepper
Drink by the spoonful or glass, if you can tolerate it. Works miracles!
DON'T USE THIS IF YOU HAVE ULCERS OR GI PROBLEMS.
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Breathing hot air from a hairdryer really works for sore throats too. A hairdryer also works for head lice. The lice and eggs die; and the lice fall right out! Much safer that pediculicide shampoos.
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I've also used garlic oil for earaches, homemade salt water for sinus infections, salt water for toothaches (and E&J), lol - mainly for swishing, not drinking. I love alternative treatments!
for acne, try megadosing flaxseed oil capsules, (sam's club). this also works for constipation.
another constipation remedy, when all else fails, is 'vaseline cookies'...you roll little balls of vaseline (marble size) in sugar onto a cookie sheet, then place in freezer. take a few of these, swallow, then, voila!
now for hiccups...
if patient is lying down in bed, raise the arms overhead,'reach for stars',take in deep breath,hold it a minute...repeat.this supposedly 'never fails'.
my mom was always big on olive oil on face at night. cheap botox.
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Hey guys,
I find it weird how I saw this thread, because just last night I had a terrible ear ache. I have sinuses but there not that bad. I sneeze and hack (cough) a little but I can deal with it. I went downstairs and knew exactly what to ask for. I asked my mom where is some sweet oil and cotton. I put a little bit of sweet oil on that cotton and stick it in my ear. I slept like a baby last night.
My mom always suggested vinegar on a cloth to place on my forehead when I had a headache becuase I never liked to take anything, but I hated the smell.
And you know round that time of the month when your breasts are sore, she suggested putting powder on them. It helped soothe away some of the pain.
When I was younger I would end up in the emergency room for all kind of things like busting my leg wide open from it going through a broken chair I tried to stand on when I was being chased by piglets to swallowing a lamp screw. Remedy for that to come to surface was some good old mashed potatoes.
I enjoyed reading all the remedies everyone posted. Really makes me eager to try some of them.